Ribbon-holder.



PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed February 23, 1906. Serial No. 302.566.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALMON H. GARDYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brownington Center, in the county of Orleans and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Ribbon-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ribbon-holders, and has for its obj cot to provide an improved device of this character which is capable of being conveniently fitted to a roll of ribbon so as to hold the same in a relatively tight condition to permit of unrolling any suitable amount of the ribbon without removing the holder.

A further object of the invention is to have the device adjustable in order that it may be conveniently fitted to ribbons of different widths.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a roll of ribbon equipped with the holder of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one embodiment of the holder. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view taken through the telescoped cross-head of the holder. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one end of the cross-head. Fig. 5 is a view of the blank employed in the embodiment shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing another embodiment of the invention. of the blank employed in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a detail view of another modification of one of the telescopic cross-head members. Fig. 9 is a detail sectional view through one end of a roll of ribbon, showing the manner of connecting the present holder thereto.

Like characters of reference designate c0rresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

The present device includes teleseoped tubular springarms 3, which are provided at their free ends with the respective inturned extensions 4 and 5 received within the re spective cross-head members 2 and 1. Each arm is bent, intermediate of its ends, into a Fig. 7 is a view.

spring-coil 6, having substantially parallel whirls of the same diameter, from which the wire is extended in substantial parallelism beneath the arm to form a link 7, which terminates at its outer end in a spring-coil 8. The free end portion of the link 7 is bent diametrically across the inner side of the spring-coil S, as at 9, and then it is bent into a hook 9.

When the device is placed upon a roll of ribbon, such as shown at 10 in Fig. 1 of the drawings, it is placed astraddle the roll, and the hookjournals 9 thrust through the paper ends of the spool or core 11, upon which the ribbon is usually wound, the crosshead being held snugly against the periphery of the roll through the tension afforded by the spring-coils 6 and S. It will here be explained that the spring-coils 6 are wound in a direction to be tightened by any tendency to separate the arms 3 from the links 7. As the members of the cross-head are telescoped the device may be conveniently adjusted to ribbons of different widths, whereby a single size will answer for various widths of ribbons.

The inner end of the arm extension 4 is bent laterally to form a stop engaging across the inner end of the tubular member 2, so as to prevent withdrawal of the arm therefrom, and this stop also works in the slot 13 of the member 1. It will be seen that the end portions of the blank from which the tubular member 1' is formed are spaced to form the slot 13, and one of these edges is provided with an extension or wing 14, which overlaps the other edge so as to stiffen and brace the tubular member. That end portion of the member 1 which is entered by the arm extension 5 has a wing 15 similar to the wing 14, so as to close the adjacent end of the slot 13. The member 1 is furthermore provided with a peripheral slot 16, in which the adjacent arm 3 works, and it also has a terminal wing 17, which is bent across the adj acent end oi the tube to form a closure therefor.

Another embodiment of the member 4 is shown at 1 in Figs. 4'and 5, the blank of said member having a wing 14 similar to the wing 14, and another wing 15 similar to the wing 15, there being a longitudinal extension 18 of the wing 15 projecting beyond the adjacent end of the blank. A wing 19 is provided upon the adjacent end of the blank so as to form a closure for the adjacent open end of the tubular member, the extension 18 of the wing 15 being bent across the outer side of the closure, so as to hold the same in place. That end of the blank which has the wing 19 is provided at its opposite corner with a transverse notch 20, which produces the slot for the introduction of the adjacent arm 3.

Still another embodiment of the external tubular cross-bar member is shown at 1 in Fig. 8, said tube being cast, drawn, or otherwise produced with one end open and its other end closed and having a longitudinal slot 21 intersected by a branch slot 22 at the closed end of the tube, there being bendable wings 23 carried by one edge of the slot 21 and capable of being 'bent down across the slot, so as to close the open end thereof and also to close the inner end of the slot 22.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A ribbon holder comprising spaced links having journal terminals at corresponding ends, spring-pressed arms carried by the other ends of the links, and endwise-adjustable cross-bar members carried by the free ends of the arms.

2. A ribbon holder comprising spaced links having journal terminals at corresponding ends, spring-pressed arms carried by the other ends of the links, and telescoped cross-bar members carried by the arms.

3. A ribbon-holder comprising a pair of spaced links having corresponding terminal transversely disposed journals, springpressed arms carried by the other ends of the links and having inturned extensions, and telescoped cross-bar members receiving the respective extensions of the arms, the outer cross-bar member having a longitudinal slot, and that arm extension which intersects the inner cross-bar having its inner end provided with a shoulder lying across said member and working in the slot of the outer crossbar member In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALMON H. GARDYNE.

Witnesses:

JULIA R. GARDYNE, GEORGE O. PORTER. 

